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17 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 1 story, 16 comments · first 2020-04-18 · latest 2025-12-13

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  1. …Gleam itself provides what I believe is a substantial subset of OTP support via a library: https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp Importantly: "Gleam has its own version of OTP which is type safe, but has a smaller feature set. [vs. Elixir,…
    comment by sbuttgereit · 2025-12-13 · in I tried Gleam for Advent of Code
  2. …blog/posts/all-you-need-is-data-and-function... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40645489 [3] https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp#limitations-and-known-issu...
    comment by Nezteb · 2025-09-13 · in My first impressions of Gleam
  3. https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp ?
  4. On a related note, Gleam's OTP implementation recently hit version 1.0! https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp/releases/tag/v1.0.0
    comment by Nezteb · 2025-06-23 · in My First Impressions of Gleam
  5. Forgive my ignorance, I was looking at this the other day, isn't this otp for gleam? https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
    comment by dimator · 2025-06-04 · in Why I wrote the BEAM book
  6. …projects yet, but I've used some fairly chunky libraries and everything compiles super quick. [1] https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
  7. …Gleam is the better choice. Otherwise it's up to your tastes around type systems and syntax. [0] https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
    comment by sodapopcan · 2025-03-09 · in Gleam v1.9
  8. this is Gleam OTP package https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp I agree it's underdocumented but doesn't seem abandoned (has commits in last week)
    comment by jatins · 2024-10-06 · in Gleam Is Pragmatic
  9. Modern type system over BEAM sounds great but unfortunately OTP is still not 100% supported https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp?tab=readme-ov-file#limitat...
    comment by olakease · 2024-04-24 · in Learn OTP with Gleam
  10. They seem to have rewritten/wrapped OTP, but it's not production ready. https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp YMMV, but a BEAM language without OTP severely limits its appeal and usability.
  11. …it is an external library[^1]. Readme states it is experimental and lists some limitations. [^1]: https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
    comment by ricketycricket · 2023-10-27 · in Things I like about Gleam's Syntax
  12. We have a fully type safe and Erlang compatible OTP library! It is used in production today. https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp It is not a wrapper around gen_server etc, but instead it is a full implementation from the ground up using a…
    comment by lpil · 2021-05-06 · in Gleam 0.15
  13. …It also looks like there are currently some serious limitations: https://github.com/gleam-lang/otp
  14. …just libraries rather than having dedicated syntax. https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_agent https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_process > Great work, definitely going to follow this! Thank you
  15. These two libraries are probably the best to look at: https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_agent https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_process They could be improved but they are good enough for us to get started with.
  16. There seems to be some work on that here: https://github.com/gleam-experiments/otp_process